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Written question asked by Nick Timothy (Conservative) on Tuesday, 1 September 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 4 September 2026 (named day). It was answered by Catherine McKinnell (Labour) on Friday, 4 September 2026 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.


Prisoners: Religion

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners converted to a new religion while in prison in the past three years, broken down (a) by the ethnicity of the prisoner, and (b) the religion they were converting to and from.

Answer

To provide the information requested, it would be necessary manually to examine individual prisoner records for the period in question, to ascertain whether any changes to data collected electronically related to instances of conversion, or were made for other reasons, for example to correct a previous error. This could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
26201
Session
2026-27
Related items
Prisoners: Religion
Thursday, 10 September 2026
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Prisoners Religion
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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